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Sensor to moniter bandwidth usage.

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Which sensor can monitor bandwidth usage of a device and give details of amount traffic in, traffic out, total sum and which application is using the bandwidth. Example of the application would be http,https,ftp,smtp,pop and etc.

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Created on Sep 16, 2012 7:38:52 PM



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Hallo,

please take a look at

https://www.paessler.com/manuals/prtg/bandwidth_monitoring_comparison.htm

I would suggest to satrt with a standars SNMP Traffic sensor for general information on total InOut traffic and then use a packet sniffibg or flow sensor (if your device supports it) to analyze the traffic

Created on Sep 17, 2012 7:37:29 AM by  Aurelio Lombardi [Paessler Support]




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